Posted on February 27, 2018
For analysts and academics alike, the world of development policy changes quickly. Decision-makers are faced with increasing complexity and a growing list of elements that have to be taken into account in policy reform and design.
Posted on January 16, 2018
Upon her recent return from the Ronald Coase Intuitional Economics workshop in Bogota, Colombia, Melissa van der Merwe, lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development summed her experience up as: “Never in my life have I had the level of intellectual...
Posted on November 30, 2017
The twelfth annual shared-facility training programme for the Collaborative Master of Science in Agricultural and Applied Economics (CMAAE) at the University of Pretoria (UP), brought together students from 16 African universities, and has ranked UP as one of the best institutions engaged in the...
Posted on November 17, 2017
Prof Bernard Slippers has officially been appointed as Professor and Director of the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Pretoria from 1 January 2018.
Posted on November 14, 2017
Not only did the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Pretoria (UP) celebrate a hundred years of agriculture at a prestigious event earlier this month, but it also recognised Dr Johan van Zyl, former Vice-Chancellor and Principal of UP and current CEO of African...
Posted on November 13, 2017
According to Prof Frans Swanepoel, one of the major reasons that the agricultural sector is currently unable to realise its full potential is the fact that education and training practices is in need of a very serious overhaul.
Posted on November 03, 2017
Prof Elna Buys has been appointed as the Head of the newly merged Department of Consumer and Food Science at the University of Pretoria from 1 November 2017.
Posted on October 26, 2017
A number of African countries are taking bold action to tackle malnutrition. They have successfully implemented a range of actions that have started to improve nutrition for all.
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